Join us for a special screening of In the Hour of Chaos: Hip Hop Art & Activism with Public Enemy’s Chuck D. The film chronicles Chuck D’s time as the Hip Hop Initiative’s inaugural artist in residence while celebrating five decades of Hip Hop history and movement making. It is a documentary based on the class Chuck D taught at UCLA in 2022. The film is co-produced by H. Samy, Samuel Lamontagne, and Tabia Shawel.

Followed by a panel with Chuck D, Hip Hop’s most searing political voice and global music icon; Joan Morgan, Ph.D., Center for Black Visual Culture at NYU; H. Samy Alim, UCLA Hip Hop Initiative; Moderated by Jeff Chang, pre-eminent Hip Hop journalist and historian.